I thought that he was like 47 (not that that really matters)

Only, your numbers aren't that far off from what would be expected, so they're not unreasonable. Mike Rossi's 22ish 5k and 3:11 marathon aren't even in the same ballpark. (That 5k time projects a marathon in the 3:35 range)

If the guy didn't cheat, he's sure done a good job of making it look like he did.

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What Mike should say.....

"The last thing I'll say to the people that don't believe in me, the cynics, the skeptics, I'm sorry for you.
"I'm sorry you can't dream big, and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles. "This is a great sporting event,
and you should stand around and believe, and you should believe in me. I'm a fan of me for as long as I live,
and there are no secrets. This is a hard sporting event and hard work wins it. So vive le Mike Rossi. Forever".

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ouch!

Nicely played.

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SOOOOOOOO tempted to post that in the Comments of the Phillymag.com page

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Brother

http://www.mcall.com/...-20150507-story.html


Rossi will never eat a PowerBar in this town again

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
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There is a Michael Rossi from Pennsylvania who ran in the Boston Marathon who works in radio but is NOT the father of the year guy. That guy is 52. And I bet he is being harassed a lot right now.

"And this next track by Madonna is one where I was one of her tour dancers. Of course, that was back before the days of Facebook, so sadly I wasn't able to post anything from back stage"


I would LOVE to have this guy as a wedding DJ..."The 47-year-old wedding and radio disc jockey..." (from the Morning Call story).

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A little off topic, but are you still in that neighborhood of training? Because that's a seriously solid 10 mile tempo pace for 2:50. If so, the next time you start aiming for a fast marathon, you should start thinking sub-2:40

There was some mention of that on letsrun

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If Allison Williams gets married, maybe Brian will give him a call

I'm sure they'd have a lot of stories to share

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Sadly no...I don't even know if my left knee would even let me run 10 miles anymore. My marathon PR is 2:42. I never did try running a marathon when I was running 10 mile training runs that fast. I always more of a 5K/10K guy. BTW, I'm envious of the guys I used to train with who are still capable of sub-2:40 marathons in their 40s!

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Unless...

This just got posted on the LR discussion. They've been scouring the race pictures.

"So Mr. Rossi is the only one out of 1065 marathon finishers with no photos along the race course (excepting the finish line)."

There's blood in the water, and it's attracting attention from far outside the Running Community

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/...a5-cf05d85d89a0.html

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Let's Run has done it again. VIDEO EVIDENCE. (or something close to it)

Smoking gun video?! wrote:
http://results.chronotrack.com...D=10510918

Watch the finisher video of MR - note the guy wearing green neon singlet finishing just ahead.

Now go to these times of the video (not the clock time)
@2:09:10 - the green singlet guy coming in from the distance
@2:09:20 - two pedestrians cross behind the green singlet guy from left to right
@2:09:23 - a mystery man from the left walks out on to the course BUT does not continue right and appears to join behind the green singlet guy
@2:09:30 - two more pedestrians (one with a stroller) cross from left to right behind the green singlet guy + mystery man
@2:09:47 - green singlet crosses the finish and mystery man is revealed to be MR...

Case closed.

LRC video analyst

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I think the 2:09 video theory was shown to be incorrect earlier in the thread.

The smoking gun will most likely come from a picture taken at the last relay transfer point about 3 miles from the finish. At his typical 8 minute pace, that's anywhere after 2:40:00 into the race.

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I like having someone else to trawl through the Lets Run threads and keep me posted of the important developments. Those guys can ramble on like anything, the threads can hit 100 pages before anything had even happened.

I heard he was fired by his coach mid season

That's not a Trucker Hat

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
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Thread closed. We have a winner.

He saw a fin on the ground and walked off the course to pick it up, he was bringing it back to give to a race official.

Most folks are looking up at the finish, and pushing their watch for a finish time.

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